On Tuesday, snow fell on the Lincoln Park construction site. Foundations for new homes were covered in tarps to protect the newly poured cement. Construction workers nailed in boards on the more complete structures as...

Editor’s note: This is the tenth in a 13-part series. Installments will appear each Thursday in the Summit Daily. Throughout this series, we have documented the struggles of Summit County workers and families brought on...

Editor’s note: This is the ninth in a 13-part series. Installments will appear each Thursday in the Summit Daily. In October 2014, Teresa Zube bought her first home. For those squarely in the middle of...

Editor’s note: This is the eighth in a 13-part series. Installments will appear each Thursday in the Summit Daily. Sharon Cole and her husband Tom bought their condominium in the Dillon Valley East complex in...

Editor’s note: This is the seventh in a 13-part series. Installments will appear each Thursday in the Summit Daily. The Elements Church is perched atop one of the many flights of stairs that line the...

Editor’s note: This is the sixth in a 13-part series. Installments will appear each Thursday in the Summit Daily. Summit County Commissioner Thomas Davidson’s mission to provide housing for the local workforce began more than...

Editor’s note: This is the fifth in a 13-part series. Installments will appear each Thursday in the Summit Daily. As evening approaches, Robert searches for an unrented — and unlocked — storage unit somewhere in...

On Sept. 20, Jennifer Kermode, the longtime executive director of the Summit Combined Housing Authority, submitted a letter to her newly-appointed supervisor with a number of concerns related to her job. In the four-page document,...

Editor’s note: The is the fourth in a 13-part series exploring the workforce housing crisis in Summit County. For many business owners in Summit County, the housing crisis causes more than just a problem for...

A leadership shake-up at the Summit Combined Housing Authority could lead to potential litigation, according to sources familiar with the issue. For reasons that are not yet clear, the housing authority’s executive director, Jennifer Kermode,...

Editor’s note: This is the third in a 13-part series. Installments will appear each Thursday in the Summit Daily. The call came in and the recipient had to hold back his excitement through the phone....

Editor’s note: This is the second in a 13-part series. Installments will appear each Thursday in the Summit Daily. Read the first installment on a new report on the county’s workforce housing needs. Kathy Reeder...

Editor’s note: This is the first in a 13-part series. Installments will appear each Thursday in the Summit Daily. Two months ago, Norma Quezada found herself in a panic. The Summit County resident of 18...

I had just finished reading (reciting, really) the first section of his inspiring, beautifully written Facebook post when he sidled into the Summit Daily conference room. It was standing room only for our first-ever What’s...